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John B. Shoven

Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics

John Shoven

Contact Info:

[email protected]
Page in Stanford Directory

Phone: 650-723-3273

Office: Landau 132

Office hours: By email appointment

Interests

  • Research: Corporate finance (dividend behavior, mergers and acquisitions, share purchase), social security and private pensions, stock and bond returns, mutual funds, federal, personal and corporate income taxation, international cost-of-capital comparisons, applied general equilibrium analysis
  • Current Research: Asset allocation and asset location theory; the effects of taxes on the relative performance of mutual funds; the long-run future of pension fund saving; public policy towards pensions
  • Teaching: Public finance, introductory economics, intermediate micro-economics, investment
  • Professional Affiliations: AEA, WEA, Econometrics Society (Fellow), National Tax Association

Recent Publications

(1) “The Real Deal: The History and Future of Social Security” (with Sylvester Schieber), Yale University Press, 1999

(2) “Should The United States Privatize Social Security?” (with Henry Aaron), MIT Press, 1999

(3) “Long Run Asset Allocation for Retirement Savings” (with Clemens Sialm), The Journal of Private Portfolio Management, 1998

(4) Public Policy Towards Pensions” (with Sylvester Schieber), MIT Press, 1997

(5) “The Taxation of Pensions: A Shelter Can Become a Trap” (with David Wise), Frontiers in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, ed., NBER/University of Chicago Press, pp. 173-212, 1998

List of Stanford Working Papers

Current Courses

Education

Ph.D., Yale University; B.A., University of California, San Diego (Physics)